ABSTRACT
This chapter is about the literary genre or style of writing called ‘cli-fi’ – otherwise known as climate (change) fiction. Its remit is self-explanatory: fictions focused on anthropogenic climate change as a sociopolitical and environmental issue. The history of cli-fi as a distinctive category is relatively short, with limited critical and popular information about it until about 2010. More recently, cli-fi has gained popular attention on the radio, in bookstores, and in distinguished publications such as The New Yorker, The Guardian, and the Chicago Review of Books (the latter of which has a regular column on cli-fi entitled ‘Burning Worlds’).
